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Save $2 Per Gallon!
North Star Writers Group ^ | June 16, 2008 | Herman Cain

Posted on 06/16/2008 5:57:29 AM PDT by Dukes Travels

Now that I have your attention, here’s how.

Slow down. Stop the jack rabbit starts. Don’t slam the brakes. Dump the junk in the trunk. Use the cruise. Ride on air. And sweat on the way home.

A properly maintained vehicle, plus changing your driving behavior can actually increase your gas mileage by 50 percent, which saves you $2 per gallon on your next gallon of gas. And I have the listeners who have done it to prove it. Here’s the math.

The pain at the pump is now averaging $4 a gallon. If you are currently getting 20 miles per gallon in the hot wheels of your choice and you increase the mileage by 50 percent, then you will be getting 30 miles per gallon. That’s 10 extra miles for which you will not have to buy gas. Therefore, you save $2, since you are paying $4 per 20 miles driven.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: energy; fuel; gas; hermancain; oil
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1 posted on 06/16/2008 5:57:29 AM PDT by Dukes Travels
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To: Dukes Travels
I live 3 1/2 miles from work and can take side streets. 69-72 MPG. top speed around 60. A tank of gas would cost about $8.50 and last a month.
2 posted on 06/16/2008 6:03:05 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (")
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To: Dukes Travels

Here is another tip. Only go places that are downhill so you can just coast your way there. This should get you over 100 mpg.


3 posted on 06/16/2008 6:03:29 AM PDT by TonyM (E)
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To: Dukes Travels
[Congress is] certainly more concerned about the caribou than the people.

And there is the problem. If Bush would simply announce that, effective tomorrow, he would open up ANWR, the OCS, and all federal lands to exploration and production of oil, the spot price of oil would fall like a stone. Congress IS the problem and until they open up our resources to exploration and production, you'll continue to line their pockets with the kickbacks and bribes that they must be collecting. If that weren't the case, then you have to believe they are so stupid they can't see that production, and only production, is going to ease the price you and I pay at the pump.

4 posted on 06/16/2008 6:07:51 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...

PING!


5 posted on 06/16/2008 6:08:14 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drill Here! Drill Now! Pay Less! Sign the petition at http://www.americansolutions.com/)
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To: TonyM
This should get you over 100 mpg.

I'm skeptical since once I reset my fuel computer at the start of a long downhill and it only read 99.9 mpg the whole way down.

6 posted on 06/16/2008 6:09:59 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: BigCinBigD

I live a bit farther from work, but I can take side streets.

I drive a full size GMC pickup truck. Its 4wd so it sits higher than a standard pickup. All and all, its a large, very visible vehicle that doesn’t exactly stop on a dime. Lately, I’ve been keeping my headlights on during the day just so I’m more visible.

And still, at least once a week, someone pulls out in front of me to the point I have to slam on my brakes to not hit them. Its better now that school is out. Not to stereotype, but the mothers driving their kids to school were some of the worst for making dangerous driving situations.

I think a motorcycle (I’m just not into scooters) would save me a bunch of money, but I’m afraid I’d be a hood ornament in less than a month. People just don’t pay attention.

That, and it snows like heck for several months out of the year where I live.


7 posted on 06/16/2008 6:10:15 AM PDT by chrisser (The Two Americas: Those that want to be coddled, Those that want to be left the hell alone.)
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To: BigCinBigD
I have a friend who is on a waiting list for one of those.
8 posted on 06/16/2008 6:10:29 AM PDT by lonestar
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To: Dukes Travels

In todays cars doing what the article says will not increase your mileage by 50%.


9 posted on 06/16/2008 6:11:32 AM PDT by eastforker (Get-R-Done and then Bring-Em- Home)
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To: BigCinBigD

I live 3 1/2 miles from work and can take side streets. 69-72 MPG. top speed around 60. A tank of gas would cost about $8.50 and last a month.

...hit a rock and you’re history.


10 posted on 06/16/2008 6:15:53 AM PDT by albie
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To: BigCinBigD

I live 30 miles from work, can’t take the side streets, get 50-55 miles per gallon, and I don’t know what the top speed is. Not sure I WANT to know what the top speed is. ;^)
If I run it to empty (using reserve tank also) a tank of gas costs about $12 and will last me 2 1/2 days.
Still better than the $24 I would have paid in my 4 wheeled vehicle.
11 posted on 06/16/2008 6:16:09 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Dukes Travels
Better yet...


12 posted on 06/16/2008 6:16:15 AM PDT by j_k_l
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To: Dukes Travels

First of all, they are good ideas but there is NO WAY to increase your efficiency by 50%. Maybe 20-25%, but not 50%.

Second, rolling the windows down will only help during stop and start driving. For highway speeds, turning the AC off and rolling the windows down actually creates more drag and uses more fuel than the windows up and the AC running. For those of us in the muggy southeast, running the car with the AC off simply isn’t an option.


13 posted on 06/16/2008 6:16:24 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: eastforker
......will not increase your mileage by 50%.

I have a Toyota Corolla, stick-shift, it's rated at 38/42mpg. I drove 300 interstate miles and got 54mpg by setting the cruise at 55mph. that's significant but not 50%.

I won't do that experiment again, as it causes insanity.

14 posted on 06/16/2008 6:17:57 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (McCain, my penultimate choice in the primary and only choice in the general)
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To: BigCinBigD

I just reluctantly traded in my Infiniti QX56 (12-15mpg) for the 2009 Acura TSX (25-32mpg). I loved that SUV. I love this car more!


15 posted on 06/16/2008 6:18:25 AM PDT by albie
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To: Dukes Travels

I like Herman Cain, but he lifted this from Consumer Reports this past month. I do not have a problem with that, but just give credit where its due, and do not pretend like this is your original idea.


16 posted on 06/16/2008 6:19:26 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: chrisser
The parents at my son's junior high school were insane this year. My daughter went there, and I dropped her off every day for three years with few incidents (no accidents, mind you). Last year, no kids at that school. This year, it was nuts every morning. Passing on the right using the bike lane. Parking in the section of the street reserved for the buses. Triple parking and blocking parents in -- including those who were trying to pull out and free a spot at the curb. Passing on the right while sneaking up in the bicycle lane.

I was almost wishing the cops would start staking out the place again. They used to be there once per month to make their ticket quota. This year, I saw them once.

17 posted on 06/16/2008 6:19:29 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: BigCinBigD

Might be an option if I didn’t work in a 250 mile radius of my town. Might be an option if I didn’t have to carry a ton of tools, and parts on cow paths, in that 250 mile radius. Might be an option if I didn’t have to carry about 50 pounds of weather related clothing, all year round. Might be an option if I didn’t have to carry 200 pounds of sensitive electronic instruments around where ever I go. Might be an option if I had an 8 to 5 job in a place where it didn’t rain much. It is akin to being a trucker. There is no solution other than parking.

The real solution is getting Congress out of the fuel business.


18 posted on 06/16/2008 6:20:08 AM PDT by wita (truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
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To: eastforker
In todays cars doing what the article says will not increase your mileage by 50%.

I completely agree. You would have to be the world’s worst lead-foot already getting well under the advertised mileage to even have a shot at a 50% improvement.

19 posted on 06/16/2008 6:22:40 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (The change Barack Obama will bring is called anarchy.)
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To: Dukes Travels
The pain at the pump is now averaging $4 a gallon. If you are currently getting 20 miles per gallon in the hot wheels of your choice and you increase the mileage by 50 percent, then you will be getting 30 miles per gallon. That’s 10 extra miles for which you will not have to buy gas. Therefore, you save $2, since you are paying $4 per 20 miles driven.

Was this guy an accountant for Enron?

20 posted on 06/16/2008 6:23:18 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (When all you have is a kitty, every problem looks like a troll.)
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